A lawsuit was filed for more than $ 50,000 for posting to Twitter

How much damage can a single Twitter message do? According to Horizon Realty, a property management agency, at least $ 50,000.

This is the cost of a lawsuit against one of the former tenants on Monday, in response to a report about one of their apartments in Chicago. Amanda Bonnen was in apartment 4242 N. Sheridan, one of more than 1,500 apartments owned by the company. According to the Chicago Sun-Times , Amanda’s message, sent on May 12, was as follows:

“Who was it sleeping? Was it bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it's okay. ”

The message sent under the no longer existing @abonnen user account triggered a lawsuit initiated in Cook County County Court. And although the message itself along with the account is now deleted, its page has been saved in the Google cache, where you can count exactly 20 “followers”. Perhaps there were more of them, when no one yet suspected that everything could turn out so seriously. Amanda was not a particularly active user of Twitter - she sent about 1-5 messages per day, and sometimes did not send at all.
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